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Note: N197 From "History of Trumbull County" 1909. Courtesy of Chris Mowrey, descendant of Christiana Hughes.
William E. Hughes, of Mineral Ridge, in Weathersfield township, a retired farmer, was born in Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, October 21, 1847. Samuel Hughes, his father, was born and reared near Dry Valley*, close to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He was of Scotch and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. He married Matilda Densel at Lewistown. She was of German parentage. This worthy couple had eight children: Nancy, wife of Bryson Wilson; Mary E., wife of James Taylor, of Pittsburgh; Christiana A., wife of George Newman, of Niles, Ohio (this is a mistake, George Neiman was her first husband- in 1909 she was the widow of Benjamin Granger), Susanna, wife of James Brood, of Pittsburgh; Maria, wife of Samuel Lynch, of New Brighton, Pennsylvania; Albert C., who lives at Gallipolis, Ohio; William E., of this sketch; James P., of Newton Falls, Ohio.
Samuel Hughes, the father, came to Ohio in 1856, settling at Ohltown, Trumbull County. He was connected with the Junior Order of American Mechanics; was a soldier in the Civil War, and served in the Twentieth Ohio Infantry Regiment and was in twenty-three hard-fought battles, among which engagements may be enumerated Vicksburg, Atlanta, and Bolivar, Tennessee. He was a corporal in his company, and served under division commander Logan at Shiloh, Corinth, Mississippi and Fort Donelson. Politically he voted with the Republican party, and in church faith he was a communicant of the Baptist church the greater part of his life. He held many church offices during his membership in this denomination. He was at one time a local preacher, and was noted for working hard during the entire week and then driving from five to ten miles on Sunday in order to preach.
William E. Hughes, the seventh child in his parents' family, began his career in life as an iron worker in the rolling mills, when about nineteen years of age. He received his education at Temperanceville, Pennsylvania, and at the district schools of Ohltown, Ohio. he commenced a course in the business college at Pittsburgh, but left before he graduated. When sixteen years of age he enlisted in the Twentieth Ohio Regiment as a member of Company H, as a drummer boy, and was in twenty-three hard fought engagements with his command. Grant and Sherman were the leading generals under whom he served his time in the great Civil War, as the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth army corps were what was styled "Sherman's bummers," and he was associated with that gallant, rough and always ready portion of the Union volunteer service. He was in the Seventeenth Corps and served three years, from 1861 to 1864. Since the war ended he has spent all of his active years as an iron worker, together with carpentering. On account of his age he is now retired, and lives on a small farm in Weathersfield township. Politically Mr. Hughes is a Republican. In religious faith he is affiliated with the Spiritualist denomination.
He was married Feburary 2, 1868, to Orvilla M. Baer, who was the daughter of Lafayette and Orvilla Baer, residents of Niles, Ohio. They moved from Pennsylvania in 1849, when she was two weeks old. Mrs. Hughes was educated at the common schools. The children born to this union are: William L., who married and lives in Youngstown, Ohio; Frances May, wife of Collingwood Brown, lives at Niles, Ohio; Charles A., residing at Canton, Ohio; George W., who died in infancy; Otto A., an adopted son, who lives at the family home.
* The only reference to Dry Valley situates it near Lewistown, PA.
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This man and his wife adopted Otto Hughes. According to a descendant of William and Orilla, William E. Hughes was the "real" father of Otto. . William E. Hughes and William “Will”Barton Hughes who married Lizzie Chambers were cousins, as William’s father and Will’s grandfather were brothers.
The 1889-90 City Directory has William E Hughes working at The Trumbull Iron Co.
Also lived in Mifflin Co., PA
1870 Census. William worked as a Roller in R.M.
1880 Census, Trumbull Co., OH Worked on the Railroad
1910 Census, Trumbull Co., OH This census says that 4 children were born and at that time 3 were still living. Wilbert would be the one who died before 1910. Wilbert has not been found on the 1900 census, so perhaps he died before then.
Obituary
Civil War Veteran of Creswell Dead
William E. Hughes, route 1, Creswell, a civil War veteran, died at Pacific Hospital Monday, May 6 at the age of 88. Mr Hughes was born in Ironton,(Lehigh County*) Pennsylvania, Oct 21, 1846 and spent most of his life in Ohio, coming to Oregon in 1929. He served the entire Civil War and was a member of the G.A.R. post at Niles, Ohio. He is survived by two sons, Otto A. Hughes, of Route 1, Creswell, and C.A. Hughes of Canton, Ohio and a daughter, Mrs. Frances Eakin, Mineral Hills, Ohio. The funeral services will be held from the Veatch funeral home Wednesday morning, May 8 at 10:30 with Dr. E.V. Stivrs officiating, and interment will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery.
*Ironton was found on an old map of Lehigh County. It's near Allentown, PA. Further information says that William was actually born in Lewistown, Mifflin Co., PA.
(Research):1880 census, Trumbull Co., OH
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